Tetra Technologies has a strong Piotroski score and positive volume accumulation, but an earnings quality red flag with free cash flow at only 3% of net income, a put/call ratio of 4.41, and below-floor business quality make this a position to exit rather than hold.
Thesis pillars
- Earnings Quality Red Flag→Stable
- Extreme Put Call Ratio→Stable
- Positive Volume Accumulation→Stable
- +1 more pillar — see the Why tab for full reasoning
Tetra Technologies, Inc. (TTI) Stock Analysis
Industrials · Conglomerates
Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $9.40: Quality below floor (3.4 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 5.2/10 and A.R:R 1.6:1 is above the 1.5:1 BUY gate. Specifically: Elevated put/call ratio: 2.00; Below-average business quality; Negative price momentum.
TETRA Technologies is an energy services and solutions company operating on six continents through two segments: Completion Fluids & Products, which manufactures clear brine fluids, calcium chloride, and zinc bromide battery electrolyte, and Water & Flowback Services, which... Read more
Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $9.40: Quality below floor (3.4 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 5.2/10 and A.R:R 1.6:1 is above the 1.5:1 BUY gate. Specifically: Elevated put/call ratio: 2.00; Below-average business quality; Negative price momentum. Chart setup: No clear chart pattern; technical signals are mixed. Score 5.2/10, moderate confidence.
Passes 7/8 gates (favorable risk/reward ratio, clean insider activity, no SEC red flags, news events none recent, earnings proximity 30d clear, semi cycle peak clear, materials cycle peak clear). Fails on weak momentum. Suitability: aggressive.
About Tetra Technologies, Inc.
About Tetra Technologies, Inc.
TETRA Technologies operates two segments — Completion Fluids & Products and Water & Flowback Services — across six continents, with calcium chloride production capacity of approximately 1.0 million equivalent liquid tons per year from manufacturing plants in the United States and Finland. The company also holds more than 40,000 gross acres of bromine- and lithium-bearing brine leases near Magnolia, Arkansas, supporting both its legacy completion-fluids business and an emerging low-carbon energy strategy. No single customer accounted for 10% or more of consolidated revenue in 2025, 2024, or 2023, reflecting a broad base of oil and gas exploration and production customers worldwide.
TETRA's Completion Fluids & Products segment sells clear brine fluids and calcium chloride-based products to oil and gas operators, offering a buy-back program that reconditions and recycles used fluids to lower customers' net costs and disposal needs, while also selling calcium chloride into non-energy markets such as water treatment, food processing, road maintenance, and ice melt. The segment depends on a long-term supply agreement with LANXESS to purchase its bromine raw material requirements from LANXESS' Arkansas production facilities, supplemented by bridging agreements with LANXESS and other suppliers for additional volumes through 2027. The Water & Flowback Services segment, competing against Select Water Solutions domestically and providing subcontracted services to Halliburton and Schlumberger customers internationally, earns revenue from water management, frac flowback, and production well testing for onshore U.S. and select international oil and gas operators.
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TETRA's pivot toward low-carbon energy rests heavily on a single customer relationship: under a preferred supply agreement running through December 31, 2027, Eos Energy Enterprises committed to purchase 100% of its zinc bromide product requirements and 75% of its proprietary full electrolyte solution requirements from TETRA, with TETRA holding a right of first refusal before Eos could source those products elsewhere. TETRA completed its bulk electrolyte tanker loading system at the West Memphis, Arkansas plant to supply Eos as it ramps production in early 2026, meaning the pace and scale of Eos's own battery manufacturing ramp, a factor outside TETRA's control, will directly determine how much of this new revenue stream TETRA actually realizes.
See also: Industrials · Conglomerates
From Tetra Technologies, Inc.'s most recent 10-K filing, extracted July 6, 2026.
Recent developments
updated 2026-07-07Recent Developments — Tetra Technologies, Inc.
Latest news
- NEWS TTI Achieves Strong Q1 Results with Revenue of $156.3 Million - GuruFocus — GuruFocus positive
- NEWS Tetra Technologies Inc. (TTI) Stock Rises on Q1 2026 Earnings - Quiver Quantitative — Quiver Quantitative positive
- NEWS Earnings Flash (TTI) TETRA Technologies, Inc. Posts Q1 Adjusted EPS $0.06 per Share, vs. FactSet Est of $0.03 - marketsc — marketscreener.com positive
- NEWS TETRA Technologies (NYSE:TTI) Delivers Impressive Q1 CY2026, Stock Soars - StockStory — StockStory positive
- NEWS TETRA Technologies (NYSE:TTI) Delivers Impressive Q1 CY2026, Stock Soars - Yahoo Finance — Yahoo Finance positive
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- MEDIUMSupplierLANXESS10-K Item 1: 'the Completion Fluids & Products Segment purchases its requirements of raw material bromine from LANXESS' Arkansas bromine production facilities'
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Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $9.40: Quality below floor (3.4 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 5.2/10 and A.R:R 1.6:1 is above the 1.5:1 BUY gate. Specifically: Elevated put/call ratio: 2.00; Below-average business quality; Negative price momentum. Chart setup: No clear chart pattern; technical signals are mixed. Prior stop was $8.90. Score 5.2/10, moderate confidence.
Take-profit target: $11.16 (+18.7% upside). Prior stop was $8.90. Stop-loss: $8.90.
Quality below floor (3.4 < 4.0).
Tetra Technologies, Inc. trades at a P/E of 155.0 (forward 22.5). TrendMatrix value score: 6.1/10. Verdict: Sell.
9 analysts cover TTI with a consensus score of 4.0/5. Average price target: $13.
What does Tetra Technologies, Inc. do?TETRA Technologies is an energy services and solutions company operating on six continents through two segments:...
TETRA Technologies is an energy services and solutions company operating on six continents through two segments: Completion Fluids & Products, which manufactures clear brine fluids, calcium chloride, and zinc bromide battery electrolyte, and Water & Flowback Services, which provides water management and frac flowback services to onshore oil and gas operators. No single customer accounted for 10% or more of consolidated revenue in 2025, 2024, or 2023, while the company expands into low-carbon energy through roughly 40,000 gross acres of bromine- and lithium-bearing brine leases in Arkansas and